Translation into English

Today Audiria Celebrates Its Second Birthday! (by AL)

Today (28 December 2009) Audiria turns two years old. Our project, which is
dedicated to the promotion of our language and culture throughout the world,
continues to move forward. During the past year more than 48,700 Internet
surfers have visited us (an increase of 62% over the previous year); and we have
almost reached a total of 2,800 registered users, with 1.1 million visits
annually (an increase of 57%) from 153 countries. The largest group of visitors
comes from the United States followed by Spain, Brazil, France, China and the
United Kingdom.

This year we have reduced the frequency of new chapters from daily to every
other day because Audiria already has an extensive offering of chapters. We have
enlarged our offering of channels from 6 to 15 to better serve the interests,
suggestions, and requests of users. We began our journey with channels related
to grammar, the press, daily scenes, radio, books, and Don Quijote; these were
followed by channels for beginners, photos, television, and short scenes; and
more recently we have added channels about songs, cinema, history, and art. Next
year we want to offer new channels such as Tourism in Spain, Humor and a Slow
channel, so that you will not miss anything that we are saying.

We have created a section on phrases that has been very well received. In
addition, we have created a section on advice and frequent errors (mainly a
contribution of students whose native language is English).

We have also vastly increased the opportunity to do exercises within Audiria as
well as the possibility of contributing your own exercises. Furthermore, we have
created a section for the student of the month in which the student who has done
the most during that month can write a comment to the other users of Audiria.

As you have been able to see and will continue to observe in the future, more
and more the students of Audiria are being incorporated into our daily work. We
have already spoken of the opportunity to submit exercises and of our
presentation of the student of the month, but you will also have noticed that
some English-speaking students have been sending us translated audiotexts (in
text and in voice) which help other students to learn the language. We encourage
you to continue sending them to us, and not only in English. Also, thanks to
you, our section on Spanish sentences translated into several other languages is
growing.

We can give you a heads up on some of our more immediate projects: to continue
adding to the section on advice and common mistakes, to increase the database of
questions proposed by the users, to create a section on vocabulary similar to
the one on short phrases, to add new vocabulary exercises, to incorporate a tool
so that you can improve your pronunciation and compare it with that of a native
speaker, to create a forum on Facebook in which you can resolve your questions
about learning Spanish and help one another.

As you can see there is a great future ahead of us, and we would like you to be
part of it. To participate, send us suggestions on how to improve our site,
propose exercises for other students, translate sentences and vocabulary into
your language, translate audiotexts into your language and if possible read them
aloud, answer the questions of other students in the Audiria forum on Facebook,
speak about Audiria to other students; and if you have a page web, link to us
and speak about us. There are many ways for you to get involved with us.

Our intention is to continue growing and establishing ourselves as promoters of
Spanish language and culture, and we hope we will continue to receive your
support in this endeavor.